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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1885-01-26

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1885-01-26 page 1

. - . i -. , ' VOL. XL) VI. NO. 22. COLUMBUS, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1885. ESTABLISHED 1811. OLD ALBION STARTLED. A BLAST HEARD 'BOUND THE WORLD. A Devilish Plot to Blow Up the Bouse of Commons, Westminster and the White Tower All England Paralysed-No Arrests and No Clue. At 2 :09 Saturday afternoon aJierrific explosion occurred in the cryptTof Westminster ball, which forms the vestibule of the House of Parliament, London. A second explosion followed three minutes later in the Hoase of Commons, in the strangers' gallery, and a third shortly afterward at the London tower, at what is known as the White tower. All of them Were caused- by dynamite. Saturday being the usual Visiting day at the houses of Parliament, the buildings Contained a great number of sight-seers at the time of the explosions. Immediately after the first explosion, a lady visitor, who was alone, . and about to enter the buildings, beckoned to a policeman,' 2nd called his attention to a package lying upon the steps outside the crypt. The policeman picked up the package carelessly, not suspecting anything, and went with it into Westminster hall. He no sooner reached the hall than the package exploded. - The great window over Westminster hall was smashed to atoms and all the side windows were blown out. In the interior of the House of Commons, the lobby was wrecked, the gallery torn down, the Speaker's chair destroyed, and the massive stone-work displaced, and the glass roof completely shattered. Glad- - stone's seat was torn to pieces, A large quantity of explosive material had been placed inside the great ornamental gates leading to the crypt under Westminster hall. These gaes were blown clear off their hibges and thrown to the ground. All the windows on the north and south sides of the immense building were blown to atoms. The concussion shook down from the grand oak roof of the ball the accumulated soot of centuries. This in its downward movement made a dense cloud, so that the officers on guard became alarmed and dared not enter the room. In the lobby splinters were for a time thick as flakes in a blinding snowstorm, and were propelled with dangerous force. They cut and ripped the leather from the seats and tore out and scattered the horsehair stuffing all over the House. A man whs happened to be standing on a scaffolding near the crypt when the explosion occurred was knocked forcibly to the ground. ' Immediately after the explosions the whole city of London was in a frenzy of excitement, the entire police force Was on dutv and bedlam reigned everywhere. A cordon of police was placed about the buildings and no one allowed to leave them until they were searched. Fourteen persons were injured, four seriously. The worst injuries were received by Constables Cox and Cole and a civil engineer named Edwin Green, visiting Parliament buildings. Over one hundred visitors were in the House of Commons when the explosion occurred in Westminster hall. Most of them rushed out of the building to ascertain the cause of the report, and thus many lives were saved. The third explosion occurred at the White tower. The famous old building was crowded with visitors at the time. The report was tremendous and was heard for miles up and down the Thames. The scenes in and about the tower were indescribable. Several children were among the injured. - Their pale laces, 'bloody heads and broken limbs raised . the great crowd congregated in the vicinity to a fury, and yells were heard on every side to "lynch the villains." All visitors were detained in the tower until searched and their antecedents inquired into. An invesigation showed that the explosives were handled by persons who gained access to the tow-eras sight-seers. The explosion occurred on the second floor, and three floors were wrecked. Hundreds of rifles were damaged in the tower, which was ignited, and the fire suppressed with difficulty. The ancient armory was destroyed. The noise of the explosion was preceded by a blinding flash, followed by great clouds of dust. Twenty persons were hurt, six seriously. The favorite theory of the police is that the dynamite used at all three places was carried to each one concealed under the long cloak of a woman. Several suspicious parties were seen before the explosion, but it . was believed that they made their escape in the general rush of the people after the terrific shocks. The ruins at the tower show that the explosives were operated from a point somewhere on the inner bastion, or in the esplanade nearest the Thames tower. - The police were unusually prompt and successful in placing their embargo upon all egress from the tower grounds. The explosive agent was deposited in what is known as the banqueting hall, in the White tower. This hall is now used as an armory, and in it were stored a large number of Martini rifles which were shortly to be issued to volunteers. It was behind a rack of these that the deadly compound was placed. The dynamite p'layed fhe maddest , freaks with the rifles. Many of them were twisted into the most eccentric shapes imaginable, and their distorted forms scattered about the apartment in a marvel of confusion. All glass and other fragile - articles in the hall were smashed out of all semblance to their former selves. A . large hole was crushed through the floor .at the spot where the dynamite was placed. Directly overhead a similar hole was blown through the roof. The woodwork was set on fire by the explosion, but before any serious damage had been done '.. by the flames they were extinguished. Remarkable force was shown by the explosion in Westminster hall in a downward direction. Holes were scooped in : the ground large enough for a man. Into one of the holes bo formed Constable Cox ' was violently thrown, and from it was extricated in a bruised and battered condition. Two other policemen near the scene of the explosion were not so seri-onsly hurt, but they were thoroughly stunned by the concussion. Further inspection of the locality of the explosion in the House of Commons hows the flooring was driven clear through to the basement. The floors through "the building are littered with the debris of broken chandeliers, glass and other objects of a fragile nature. The gas fixtures were wrecked, and it was impossible for Colonel Majendie, chief of the department of explosives, to continue his investigations for lack of proper illumination. The damage-, however, will not delay the assembling of Parliament, as everything can be easily repaired before tne day lor meeting arrives. . All persona arrested during the afternoon on suspicion of being implicated in the outrages were released, there being no evidence upon which they could be held. The police were completely nonplused. They were incapable of even forming a theory, and appeared to be dazed at their own inefficiency to prevent such outrages, or discover their perpetrators when they had been committed. Popular indignation ran so high, and the clamor of the crowd for some one on whom to wreak vengeance for the awful crimes of the afternoon was so insatiate, that the persons arrested on suspicion narrowly escaped lynchiDg when setat liberty. Wherever men congregated at clubs, coffee-houses, hotels, on the street, at home, everywhere the one topic of conversation throughout London, throughout the united kingdom, Saturday evening was this last instance of the dynamiters' devilish activity. Passengers on all steamers which left Dover for France that after- noon and evening were searched, in the hope of finding some of the perpetrators, but the search proved fruitless. In all-the principal cities of Europe and in this country the explosions created the greatest excitement. In Paris it was be- ' Tieved that the Fenians of that city had nothing to do with it. At Washington members of Congress were greatly exercised, and Senator Edmunds at once introduced a bill providing for the punishment of any person or persons manufacturing and selling any deadly explosives for use either in this or any foreign country. Senator Bayard introduced the following resolution : llctolied, That the Senate of the United States has heard with indignation and profound Borrow of the attempt to destroy the houses of Parliamentand other public buildings in London, and hereby expresses its horror and detestation of such monstrous crimes against civilization. Consideration of the resolution was postponed until Monday, to enable the Senate to receive fuller information upon the subject matter. Prominent Irish leaders being interviewed in New York and other cities of this country express the belief that the outrages were not committed by the Irish, or if so, they freely admit that the work was one of "great discredit to those engaged in it. Westminster Palace. The Palace of Westminster or the new houses of Parliament was commenced from the designs of C. Barry, esq., in 1840, and lies on the north bank of the Thames. The river front includes the residence of the Speaker, at the north end, the corresponding terminal toward the south being the residence for the usher of the Black Rod. The House of Peers and House of Commons are situated in the rear of the front building, or that next the Thames, and is enclosed also to the west, so as to be entirely surrounded by parliamentary offices. The plan of this truly national edifice is very simple and beautiful. The central hall, an octagon of 70 feet square, is reached through St. Stephen's hall and porch, communicating by noble flights of steps with Westminster hall, and forming an approach of unequaled magnificence. From the central hall a corridor to the north leads to the commons' lobby and the House of Commons, and a corridor to the south to the- peers' lobby and the House of Peers. The construction throughout is externally of hard magnesian limestone, from North Anstone, in Yorkshire, near Norkross, Nottinghamshire. The interior stone-work is from Caen. The whole building stands on a bed of concrete 12 feet thick, and the structure contains about 900.000 tons of stone, 24,000,000 brick and 5000 tons of iron. The palace to tne eastward presents a frontage of nearly 1000 feet. The building covers an area of about nine staute acres, and the great tower reaches to a height of 346 feet. Fourteen halls', galleries, vestibules. etc, are contained in the great building. It comprises eight official residences, twenty corridors and lobbies are required to serve as the great roadways, and thirty-two apartments are used as committee-rooms. Its cubic contents exceed 15,000,000 feet, being one-half greater than St. Paul's, and it contains not less than between 500 and 600 distinct apartments. The House of Commons is situated on the north of the central hall, and is approached through Westminster hall by a spacious flight of stairs leading to St. Stephen's porch. It is 83 feet in length from wall to wall, 45 in width and the same in height. . The White Tower Is the- most ancient of all the existing buildings, and generally supposed to have been erected by the Conqueror in 1078. It is also on the right bank of the Thames, and above the London bridge.. It is a quadrangular and nearly square edifice, 116 on its north and south sides, and 96 on the east and west, 190 feet high, exclusive of the turrets at the four angles. After being repaired in 1552, it was put in good condition during the reign of George II. The Norman Chapel of St. John is in the upper part of the White tower, and was originally used by the English mon-archs as a place of worship.-Sunday's Developments. Loxdon, Jan. 25. The west end of Westminster hall is full of wreckage caused by yesterday's explosion. The destruction of the magnificent stained window at the end of the hall, is greatly lamented. It is believed one of the conspirators entered the crypt, passing a policeman at the entrance, and deposited the infernal machine at the bottom of the steps. A policeman removed the parcel, which exploded, makingahole in the floor 3 feet in diameter, twisting Jhe iron railings and smashing the iron and lead work of all the windows in the hall. The policeman's hair was singed and his face burned ; his clothing was torn from his body by the force of the explosion. He is still alive but no hope is entertained of his recovery. The man and woman who drove from the Parliament buildings immediately before the explosion, and who were arrested on suspicion, have been liberated, the evidence being insufficient to hold them. The foundation of the hall is uninjured, but the roof is badly damaged. The bases of the statues Of William IV and George IV, which were overturned, are greatly injured. An inspection of the Parliament buildings today shpwed that, excepting the beautiful window overlooking the staircase at the south end of Westminster hall, scarcely a pane of glass escaped destruction. The foundations of the buildings were badly shaken. The roof of the crypt, in spite of its massive strength,. was greatly damaged, ruts being visible here and there. The floor of the House of Commons presents a strange spectacle, being covered with heaps of massive fragments. The elaborately carved oaken hall behind the seats beneath the gallery was completely torn down. The flooring of the strangers' and Speaker's galleries is so torn up that it is deemed unsafe to venture across. The peers' gallery suffered the most damage. The side galleries and reperters' gallery were not injured. The parcel which caused the first explosion was wrapped in a brown cloth, and was two feet long by one foot wide. A gentleman complains that the shock of the explosion broke one of his bloodvessels.Tne Queen sent a telegram today inquiring as to the condition of the injured policemen, Cox and Cole. A reply was sent stating that they were both progressing favorably. The greatest indignation prevails throughout the provinces. The outrages were referred to and denounced in all the churches today. ' It is learned that the mysterious Irishman, who is described by the police as Cunningham, alias Dalton. alias Gilbert. and who was arrested at the tower yesterday on suspicion of having been concerned in the explosion at that place, has not been released, tie is still detained in the White Chapel police station. The guard in front of the station has been doubled in consequence of the gathering of enormous crowds of excited citizens in Leman district, in the vicinity of the station. Loud curses and ominous threats are continually heard, and there is no doubt a desperate attempt will be made to lynch the prisoner, if it were not for the presence of the police and military. Cun ningham will be arraigned at the police court in White Chapel road tomorrow morning. An American traveler, name not known. was in the train of the Northwestern railway going from London to Liverpool yes terday aiternoon, wnen an excited uis cussion arose over American responsibil ity for the dynamite explosions. The opinion was freely expressed that the Tjnited States ws greatly to blame for harboring such men as O'Donavin Rossa. The American defended his country in vigorous language and was attacked by a crowd of passengers. Tne American drew a revolver and kept his assailants at bay until the train reached (Jhester, wnen he jumped from the carriage and escaped. Bridge-Works Damaged. Chicago, Jan. 25. Lassing Sc Alden's bridge-works, in the suburb of Lake View. was damaged $25,000 by fire this morn ing. The logs is chiefly on stock and patterns. The works were insured for $70,000. Street, Car Stables Burned. Kansas City. Jan. 25. The Journal's Carthage, Mo., special says: The city's street car staoies were Durnea last night. Thirteen mules and four horses psrished. lobs ?iu,uuu, insurance half. CRIME OF THE CENTURY. STATESMEN ON THE DYNAMITE PLOT. Universal Execration of the . Inhuman Method of Sighting the Woes of IrelandSample Opinions Freely Expressed on the Snbjcct. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Washington, Jan. 25. The English ex plosions continue to agitate all classes of people here, and the condemnations poured upon the fiendish perpetrators of the outrage are of the severest character. None are more earnestly sorry that the dynamiters are not all hanged than the friends of Ireland. I talked with an Irish-American member of Congress, O'Neill of Missouri, upon the sub ject today. Eeferring - to the West minster explosions he said: o true friend of Ireland can condone such a crime for a moment. Reckless bloodshed and wholesale murder are the very worst weapons that could be used to secure Ireland's freedom. If there is any one thing that will give our oppressors an excuse for their continued denial to right the wrongs ot Ireland, it is the senseless policy of the dynamite fools." Mr. Deuster of Wisconsin said, referring to the same subject: "It is too terrible to contemplate. The dynamite school of political agitators should be summarily wiped out. No punishment could be too great for such fiendish work. They'have shown their hands in Germany, England and France. Bloodshed of the most diabolical character, the murder of women and children and the wrecking of prop erty witnout reason ot any kind will do more to set back the cause of any reform than anything I know. I shall be happy to cast my vote in favor of the meat stringent law to prevent dynamite plots in this country and to mete out the most rigid penalties to the violators." Mr. Kegiuaid Howard, at one time con nected with her majesty's consular service in this country and an Englishman of Drains, today said : "I have sympathized with the cause of the Irish people in their claims for home rule and no Englishman has taken a more determined stand than I have in behalf of the true Irish cause. I thick therefore that I have the right to speak on the subject of these explosions. In the first place it is natural to assume that they were the work of Irishmen. w bat then will be the result ? Simply to set the Irish cause back farther than it has been for twenty years. Englishmen are reputed to be bull-headed. To the extent that they are difficult to move this is true. JNow all England is stirred up by these outrages and the Irish must sutler in consequence. It would be as much as a man's life is worth to advocate the cause of Ireland in London now. Aothmg that the bitterest foe of the Emerald Isle could have done could have struck such a blow at the cause of Irish freedom as these ill advised and senseless murders. "What reason could the consDirators have had for the destruction of the tower?" "I can not imagine, unless it was be cause the tower is the pride of London. It was erected hundreds of years ago and is the attraction of the east end of the city. It is visited daily by hundreds of women and children. A more brutal or cowardly attempt could not have been made than to attempt to blow up the building, and I am sure that my countrymen will take out their revenge upon the Irish as a class, without reference to the fact that but few were engaged io the dastardly outrage." .. , In Brief. .. Mrs. and Miss Bowman, wife and daughter ot Judge Bowman of Springfield, O., are at present guests of General and Mrs. faul ol this city. Chatles Price has been promoted from a 480 position to one of $600 in the patent office. Henry C. Hunterman has been desig nated to a third assistant examinerahip in the patent office. George vv. Perry has been aoDomted to a first-class clerkship in the Treasury department.William C. McGill, jr., has been appointed to a first-class clerkship in the Treasury department. All of these men are from Ohio. Miss Jessie Dewer of Clyde. O.. is a guest of Miss Gertrude Wilson at 918 Nineteenth street. Western Associated Press Dispatches. Susan 11. Anthony Gives Her Opinion at a Clergyman. Washington, Jan. 25. Rev. Dr. Patten, president of Howard university, preached a sermon in the Congregational church of this city today on "Woman and skepticism," in the course of which he spoke of the Woman 'Suffrage convention held here recently and expressed the opinion that when women are given too much liberty they branch off into skepticism and immorality. He said among ether things that the lives of such women as George Eliot, Madame Roland and Harriet Martineau exemplifies the truth of this assertion, and he referred to Victoria Woodhull as a representative of the woman suffrage movement. Among his audience were Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and on the conclusion of the service they walked to the platform and upbraided Dr. Patten for his utterances. Miss Anthony said to him if his mother were living she should take him across her knee and spank him, but Mrs. Stanton interrupting her, said: "On the contrary, let me congratulate Dr. Patten. I have been trying for years to make women understand that the worst enemies they have are in the pulpit, and now he has illustrated it beyond question." Without giving Dr. Patten time to reply, the women hastily left the church. Tonight Eev. Olympia P. Brown replied to Dr. Patten from the pulpit of the Universalist church. Onr Export and Import Trade. Washington, Jan. 25. During December, 1884, the value of merchandise was $91,294,810, or about 53,000,000 a day. This has been exceeded but twice before. viz: daring December, 18S0, and December, 1882. The value of imports of merchandise, December, 1884, is only $42,- j.a,ouy, Deing less than any previous month since July, 1879. Let Us Hope that She is Insane. Cincinnati, Jan. 25. About noon to day a terrible tragedy took place at Newport, Ky. Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow choked her son, 7 years old, to death, beat her ten-year-old daughter so severely with a Dase-Dau club that it is believed her injuries are fatal, and then cut her own throat with a razor, producing speedy death. Mrs. Winslow was 32 years of age. She was living with her brother and his family at the corner of York and Taylor streets, Newport. She and her husband, George ' C. Win-slow, have been separated for several years, he living at present at Lewiston, JN. 1. A tew months ago Mrs. Winslow returned from a sojourn in a sanitarium for treatment for insanity. Today the family left her, and her two children with two servants at the house while they went to church. She retired with her children to her room. The servants no. ticed the absence of the children and made a search. They found her room locked and raised the alarm. Mr. Davis, a brother to Mrs. Winslow. broke the door open and found the seene as de scribed. Attacked by Mexicans, Gaxvestojj, Tex., Jan. 25. The News's San Angela special says: Saturday night, on the sheep-ranch of Fitz Karzer. fifteen miles north of here, two Mexicans entered a tent and stabbed and killed Henry Metzger and seriously wounded Elmore Tremble, Fred. Smith and another man. The murderers, named Manuel and Daesis, were employed herding on a neighboring ranch belonging to Jiarger. They entered the tent while the men were sleeping. A posse is pursuing the Mexicans. No cause for the attack is known. The wounded men will die. FOREIGN NEWS. MANITOBA. Winnipeg, Jan. 25. Two young men on Friday last' met two young girls named Mary and Jessie Thomas, the latter only 15. The men took the girls about town during a part of the day and got them in a state of intoxication. They then drove to a hay loft about three miles out of the city. After assaulting them they, abused the unfortunate girls in a most inhuman manner, then threw them out of the loft and left them to their fate. The little girl was thrown into an empty sleigh. Tne night was terribly cold and the girls had very little clothing about their persons. The little girl managed to reach the house of her mother and told the story of ill usage. A party at once started to the scene of the atrocity a mile or so distant, and reached the other girl to find her in a dying condition. Every part of the body was frozen. She was taken to her mother's house and every effort put forth to save her life. She died today. The little girl was enciente and would become a mother in about a month. The police have arrested the guilty parties. ENGLAND. London, Jan. 25. The great anxiety in regard to the safety of General Stewart and his army, from whom no definite news has been received since the ithinst., the day of the battle at Abu-Klea Wells, overshadows even the interest in the explosions. The officials of the war office have been gathered in the office all day awaiting the arrival of dispatches from the Soudan, but none have been received. Plenty of rumors were in circulation, however, to the effect that Stewart's entire force had been killed. Numerous officers of the government and others called at the war office during the day to learn if there was any news. FRANCE. Paris, Jan. 25. Admiral Courbet tele graphs regarding the engagement with the Chinese at Kee Lung: "A detachment of African light infantry imprudently attempted to carry the strong Chinese earthworks south of Kee Lung, and was repulsed. .Nineteen men were killed and twelve seriously and fourteen slightly wounded. Reinforcements nave since arrived and landed at Kee Lung in excel lent health." Ihe Hone ivong dispatch sent yesterday regarding this engagement was exaggerated. BELGIUM. Brussels, Jan. 25. A collision oc curred today between two trains in a suburb of this city. Both were filled with excursionists. Twenty were injured and several of them are now dying. Tommy Jones' Funeral. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Newark, O., Jan. 25. The funeral of Tommy Jones, aged 13 yeais, took place irom the Welsh Congregational church today at 1 p. m., and was the most largely attended of any funeral ever seen in this county. Rev. I. N. Jones preached an impressive discourse. There is no clue as yet to the murderer. Mr. Reese Jones, the uncle, says he does not know of any enemy he has, and if the assassinintend-ed to kill him he can not conceive the cause. Detectives are at work on the case. Tommy was shot last Wednesday night. An Experience They Did Not Fine For. Toledo, Jan. 25. This morning a spe cial train bearing the Union Association of Lumber Dealers, returning from an ex cursion to Muskegon, Mich., was derailed, eight miles north of Allegan, Mich. The two forward coaches were overturned and four of the occupants injured. P. P. Birch, Sidney, O., side injured; -D. C, Fisher, Findlay, O., back severely wrenched; T. F. Bond, Springfield, O., temple badly bruised: J. W. Aiken. Bur- gettstown, Pa., scalp wound. - Greeting the Bell. Nashville, Jan. 25. The train bearing the Liberty bell was delayed, reaching here at 8 : IS this morning. Several hundred people were at the depot, some having been waiting Bince daylight. The train was loudly cheered. Being behind time only a few minutes' stop was made. No time for speeches or ceremonies. Why Not Arrested ? Cincinnati, Jan. 25. The coroner has returned a verdict that the death of William Heffner, an inmate of the Long View Insane asylum, who died from the effects of a bath in scalding water, was due to culpable carelessness of the attendant.-The attendant has been discharged but not arrested. Life in a Large City. Philadelphia, Jan. 25. Stuart Bros., blank-book manufacturers, failed ; liabilities $45,000, assets 20,000. The jewelry firm of Simon & Wolf yesterday confessed judgment for 522,630 in favor of H. G. Mackinney, as trustee for creditors holding claims for that amount. A Farmer Hurt. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Springfield, Jan. 25. Charles Friels, a prominent farmer of North Hampton, fell on the ice in front of Myers's livery stable this afternoon and cracked his skull. He was taken to the St. James hotel. He is in a precarious condition. Fighting for Bis Body. New York, Jan. 24. The remains of Owney Geoghegan, ex-pugilist, arrived here today. The reputed wife of Geoghegan was not permitted to see the body. She says she will make a fight in the courts to obtain possession of it. IsDiCATioss--Jbr Teniiesiee and ihe Ohio valley, fair iceather, wanner in the western portion, falling followed by rising temperature in the eastern portion and wetterrly winds. "Shall We Meet Again?" The following from the pen of the lamented George D. Prentice is well worth reproduction. It was regarded as merit orious when it first appeared, and age seems to have but added to its beauty: "The fiat of death is inexorable. No appeal for relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom, wither, and fade in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot-steps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the grass, and the multitude that throng the world today will disappear as foot-steps on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadows fall across their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose living smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonist of life, and the thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise ; we do not want to go down into damp graves, even with princes for bedfellows. In the beautiful drama of Ion, the hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek, finds deep response, in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his life a sacrifice to fate, his Clemanthe asks if they should meet again; to which he responds: I have asked thnt dreadful question of the hills that look eternal of the clear streams that flow forever of stars among those fields of azure my raised spirits have walked in glory. All are dumb. But as I gaze upon thy living face, I feel that there is something in love that mantles through its beauty that can not wholly perish. We shall meet again, Ulemanthe. Ornaments and statues cast from refined zinc are given a sparkling appearance by directing a saud-blaftt under steam pressure upon them bo that the sand cuts the surlace but does not adhere to it. A thin film of oxide is thus formed, which stands atmospheric exposure admirably, yet the him is so thin that it scarcely admits ot ordinary measurement. AS WITH A WALL OF FIRE THE HOCKING VALLEY IS DEFENDED. The Fortifications at Sand Ran, Locgstreth and Bochtel Utter Futility of a Sue ; - cessful Attack Upon Them , The Trne Sitnatlon. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Buchtel, O., Jan. 24. There is a difference of opinion among men as- to the probability of armed mobs ever devastating the Hocking valley. In the first place the different works are fortified in such a manner as to be practically im pregnable to the enginery of war now in the valley. The forts are absolutely shot proof, and are so solid in their construction that dynamite would have to be well placed under them to effect serious damage. They serve as the quarters for guards, and have loop holes opening up from every side. They are situated in commanding positions, and not a foot of ground approaching the hoppers and mines but what is exposed to a - scathing fire from the fortification. Take for instance the line of defense at Sand Run, Longstreth's, fortified, and the combined forces of the valley could hardly carry one of these places, it is true a siege might reduce them, but it is not a possibility. i Twenty or thirty men placed in one of these forts armed with Winchester re peating rifles, would be a terrible circum stance to run against, and it is easy to imagine what havoc could be worked before any force charging across open ground -could dislodge them. The men in charge ol these places , nave had experience M guards in many of the great strikes in tne country, and they know what a war with a mob means, and are not likely to become demoralized under the most trying circumstances. . There is another thing that should not be forgotten in considering this matter, and that is the fact that a large percentage of the new men, or'blacklegs," as they are called, now at work, are natives of the valley, have been raised among the vicissitudes of the region, and are as free to take part in rough and tumble set-tos as their fellows standing out. They know the country as well as any one in it ; they know the characters of the strikers better than any one can tell them, and being right on their native heath, there is the best of reason for believing that they would be valuable auxiliaries in case of an attack. It is true that many of the imported men have left the valley, but their places are being rapidly filled by men who are residents here, -bvery day the offices of the coal companies are receiving applications for labor. It is true the mines are not all running to the full capacity, and it may be true that the work is done in a slovenly manner in some cases, but it is also indisputable that hundreds of sturdy furnace men have put their shoulder to the wheel and will make number one miners. It should be remembered then, that ia speaking of the men at work, that a big part ot them are children ot men identified with the first industries in the valley : they are men that have helped to dot the hills with churches and school-houses, and no less men of warm hearts and generous impulses, because they have disagreed with the Miners' union. This class of men feel that they are nut only sustained by the law in the course they have - pursued, but have asserted their manhood by mining by the sweat of their brows what might have been theirs through the charity of others. Arms in the hands of men who prefer labor to charitv are likelv to be effective.- . , . . '? The defense of the bridges "along the railroad is equally good. Besides the heavily armed guards at them, the patrol trains are constantly moving from one point to another and could in a few min utes remtorce any place threatened. The men employed in this work are among the most trusted in the employ of the company, and while they are not imbued with bitterness toward the strikers, are still intent on. the preservation of railroad property. From a war standpoint the plan of defense in the valley is excellent. Before there is a massing of forces to annihilate this district it should be considered, first, that many of the old men have left the valley, many of them have gone to work, and many others who are opposed to the syndicate have held aloof from all demonstrations. The knowl edge that the state troops would be down on the first battle line drawn up would deter many others. Then again you will find many households divided. One brother is a striker and "another a "blackleg." You can find fathers that are loyal to the companies, and sons that are the bitterest strikers, and vice-versa. Considering then these phases of the situation, it will be seen the mining element is not a unit on the question of war, and the theory that the miners will combine to ravage the valley does not even seem to have the support of a probability. Thereof course may pe some local agita tions ; there may even be an attack on some point in the valley. The operators have been blamed with distorting facts as to the occurrences here, but a fair and impartial hearing wruld likely destroy the charge. They have certainly had cause to believe every rumor that was started ; they have had some of their most valuable property destroyed; theii works have been repeatedly attacked by armed men ; their lives threatened and their employes intimidated. It must cost considerable to mine coal under the present arrangement because when men first figured on the feasibility of operating these mines, the cost of keeping a standing army was not included in the expense account. But the output of coal is gradually increasing. The mining camps in the valley are quiet and orderly ; the roar of cars on the hoppers, the thunder of coal over the screens, the lpng heavily-ladened trains winding out of the valley are the best evidences that the affairs of the region are gradually ad justing themselves, despite the opposition- ot miners unions and all opposing lorcos. The depredations that have been committed in the valley have been ascribed to the miners, not individually but as a class. It would be very strange that if in all the years the mines have been open in the HockiDg valley that the men have had no cause of complaint, and yet there is nothing" to justily the. bad work done here. The union has never once raised a voice against the lawlessness. If it did not favor, it has not dissented. It has allowed the character of every miner in the region to be blackened, whether guilty or innocent. This thing has driven men from it. They do not want to be made the heroes of every fight the villains of every drama that covers up the labor question. Tuey say that John McBride fits an iron bit in the mouths of charging war horses here and keeps them headed right into the hjjht. Men must not dig coal here in a ten foot vein at 50 cento per ton. Thev can dig for that price in a vein one-half less iu thickness elsewhere, however. Why should the miners of the Hocking valley be under obligation to anyone?' It is a shame that they did not long ago cut loose from all entangling alliances, and it is surprising that in a section where there are so many bright minds they should be willing to submit to dictations so unjust and arbitrary. At the beginning of the present trouble, the condition of the business world could not but impress anyone that 60 cents was a fair compromise. But the mandate went forth from the Mahoning valley that it must be 80 cents if it bankrupt the valley. It has nearly done it. The bank account of peace is overdrawn and the land is rich in misery. Not saying anything against organized labor, let it first be sure that home interests are not leeding loreign vampires and the valley wiil be happy. Until this is done it can not be said that the "scepter has departed from Ejrvpt." A Striker's Wife Attacked. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Carbon Hill, Jan. 25. George Edgell, one of the striking miners, with several more returned to work at Longstreth yesterday, and knowing that he could not live here and work for the syndicate, made preparations to move. He sent two men with teams after his goods, thinking it best not to go himself. While Mrs. Edgell was attempting to assist in the work of putting her furniture in the wagons, she was assaulted by several boys, who tore the furniture from her arms, and scattering it over the ground drove her back into the house. She then went to the syndicate office at Garbon Hill and asked for some guards to help her get her furniture cut of the house. The help was - promptly furnished. Five guards, led by Mrs. Edgell, came back to the house, and finished loading the goods in the wagons, amid the jeers and taunts of the strikers, who, though .they took no part in the assault upon the woman, urged the boys to do so. Our honorable j ustice ordered the guards arrested, but no one seemed to have the courage to attempt it, though to see them drilling here every day we would suppose they were brave enough for anything. Our company here numbers about fifteen, commanded by Captain John L. Stahl. They are armed with repeating rifles and some dark right will make a brave attack upon some lonely dwelling or abandoned hopper. The rations dealt out here yesterday fell short of the usual allowance about one-half. ' "Rough on Beef." Special to the Ohio state Journal. New Straitsville, Jan. 24. Mr. Bra-soon, a resident of this place, andV doing work for the syndicate, being consequently considered a blackleg, bad a cow butchered Thursday night. He found the head and hide in a slaughter-house near by. This place is rough on people of that class. Thomas Price, the owner of two cows, is sick on account of the loss of sleep and exposure in watching his cattle. THE RAILROADS. Two Freight Trains Collide. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 25. At midnight last night a railroad collision took place near Collier's station, on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis railway. The trains were the last section of 40 going east, and the first section of 51 going west, both freights. Ihey were in charge of Engineers John Park and Lowry, end Conductors Roberts and McDevitt. - Bnh en gines are total wrecks. One cab and both tenders were mashed into Kindling-wood, as were nine cars loaded with corn, corn- meal, coke and nails. Ihe trains were delayed six hours. Both engineers escaped by jumping while their trains were going twenty-five miles an hour. Local and General. The Union Pacific owes the government only a trifle less than $103,000 000. Ticket scalpers are prohibited by a city ordinance from working in New Orleans. Notwithstanding this they have become so numerous that the passenger agents have petitioned the mayor to look after them. Railroad Commissioner Innis of Michigan thinks the following improvements are indispensable to a desirable condition of freight train service: 1. A freight car of uniform dimensions and construction on all roads of the country. 2. Automatic couplers. 3. Power brakes for freight cars operated from the locomotive. Columbus merchants will be glad t know that a genera! reduction has been made in west-bound freight rates. The new schedule will go into effect today. The rates to this point will be: First class 40 cents, second class 32 cents, and third class 20 cents. The utter demoralization in emigrant rates caused anxiety lest a similar panic should strike freight rates. The roads decided to. avert any possibility of such a disaster by making a timely reduction. The annorance to general ticket agents of the pass system is much beyond the supposition of one outside the oflices. Colonel Reppert, of the Baltimore aDd Ohio, estimates that fully one-fourth of his time is occupied in issuing passes. Many of these applicants for passes have no legitimate claim to the courtesy, but rely upon their power of harrassing the official until the bit of paper is obtained. J. N. Free, or as he is better known, the "Immortal J. N.," has thirty-four passes over different prominent roads. He could ride from Portland Me., to Deuver, Colo., or down to New Orleans on passes, to no one of which he has any right beyond that of his unlimited cheek. One of his tickets reads "Good until eternity," and another, "If any conductor punches this ticket, the owner is entitled to punch his head." Another class of applicants for privileges are the officers of . projected roads, which exist only on paper. Still another is composed of men who have some gigantic scheme in mineral or timber land, the transportation of whose products will bring a small fortune to the railroad. Swarms of these respectable deadheads ride free, while on many roads the employes who work hard for the material welware of the road, must pay half fare if they wish to make a little visit anywhere. How to Manage a Hasband. New York Star. Supposing .you have a husband whom you wish to twine around your little finger, you must first love him "with all your heart, with all your soul," etc., and the love you feel will make it possible to put with all those little discrepancies which ctop out in man's nature when you come to live with him, for the best Of men become monotonous after awhile. In the first place, should your husband be a man of business, who comes home tired to death, cross and worn out, do not at once entertain him with the troubles you have gone through during the day. I always found it an excellent plan to hide disagreeables entirely from a husband's notice. Oh, how men hate tears; how they detest household details. Of all things, when your hasband comes home, see that his dinner is well cooked. You don't know how a man appreciates a loving welcome and a good dinner after the toil of the day. There are many women who object to being "bossed,"' as they call it. My dear ladies, you can always be boss if you take the trouble. By giving in vou get your way as you never would by fighting for it. Should you wish for anything particularly, don't insist upon it after reiusal. Of course you must have it, but bide your time. Some women are persistent, and ask, "Why may I not? Why won't you do as I ask you?" and irritate the man. Rather bide your time, make an extra good dinner of his favorite dishes, put a bow on of the color he likes, make home and yourself sweeter than ever. You'll get it sure, even if you have to wait. I believe that it is perfectly possible to keep your husband so perpetually in love with you that he rather likes being ruled than not. Never ask for a new dress until after dinner. Trust no woman, but trust your husband until you find him out. . If any youig woman goes for him, take the three-legned stool to her, and make yourself so doubly agreeable to trie man, that he will never dream of looking at another. Ob, what an easy thing it is to manage the man you love and really they all want managing.Mr. E. Richard has discussed in the Journal de Pharmacie et de Chemic the dangers due to an escape of coal gas from the mains through the soil. The poison ous effects of carbon monoxide are vc-ry distinct at U 4 per cent. h.xposure to such a mixture is fatal in from thirty to sixty minutes. As coal gas contains about 10 per cent, of carbon monoxide the presence of such a eas in the proportion of 4 to 0 per cent, will become fatal. When coal gas traverses a layer of soil before entering a house the danger is greatest, since it is then deodorized and its presence may remain undetected. The Buffalo Commercial comes to the rescue of the Niagara falls hackmen, and declares that "unless a visitor is a fool ho can easily bargaLn with a courteous, iotel-ligent driver for ft rido upon the most favorable terms." OH! GIVE US A BRIEF REST MR. CLARKSON NOW HAS THE FLOOR And Tells L's All About the Luscious Legate This ITonld Have Been Good Reading Before the Lata Cyclone A Little Musty Now, However. Deb Moines, Io., Jan. 25. In reply to Legate's statements, sent in these dispatches last night, Mr. J. S. Clarkson says : "This is a contradiction of the two statements that Legate has made to the St. Louis Republican, and is nearer the truth. It denies his own and St. John's statements that they had had so conference on the matter. It confesses virtually the collusion and the amount St. John asked ; it shows St. John was willing to be hired to leave Ohio and hired not to go to New York. Legate never said a word to me about the money being sent to the .Republican committee in Kansas, nor do I believe he did to anyone else, for I have never heard of it nntil now. I do not know who he means by his friend in Ohio, unless it was Senator Plumb, as it was the latter who gave him a letter of introduction to me. It will be seen the letter contradicts Ht. John in nearly every instance, especially in St. John's denials that he had had no conference with Legate ; that he had had no sore throat ; that he did not change any of his appointments in Ohio ; that he never thought of leaving Ohio, or of not going to New - York, and that he never thought of suqh a thing as changing his course to Buit or serve the Republicans. Indeed the letter of Legate is a virtual confession of the truth of the statements I have made, except that he suppresses the facts as to his receiving a letter from St. John, that he read to me and Kerens, and that he seeks to make it appear the money was to go the Kansas Republicans, and that the national committee had sent $25,000 to that certain state, when it had not nearly enough money to use in the doubtful states. It shows Legate was acting in collusion with St. John, that he did get him - out of Ohio, and indeed it proves practically all that has been charged, and that St. John understood it all. The only material difference made by Legate is in his strained and insincere statement that the money was being sought for party benefits in Kansas, instead of St. John's personal benefit. Kansas Republicans would have been the last to ack or accept the money that the national committee needed bo much in doubtful states. In another w-ek I hope and believe Legate will take another long step forward and tell the rest of the facts, and give to the public the letters of St. John to confirm it all. It will be seen that he no longer contends his printed letters are forgeries, but admits them and tries to explain them. The letter he wrote me after returning to Kansas was not marked confidential, as he says, and I did not allow it to be printed until after I was compelled to it by statements that he made in an interview in the St. Louis Republican." HOW HE WON UEK. Victoria Sf o rosin i Explains now Krnest Captured Her Affections. Speclsl to the New York World. Notwithstanding the fact that volumes have been written and published about the famous Morosini elopement case and various explanations made as to how the lady became infatuated with her father's couch man, the real facts were never brought to light until they were obtained by a reporter here from Mrs. Schilling herself. The story is remarkable-one. Mrs. Schilling, in reply to questions on the subject, eaid : . - From childhood up it had been iny pleasure to roam at will through the forest which surrounded my home. Riding, too, was a great enjoyment to me. not because Ernest drove, for then I had no interest in him. One day I went to ride on ths road that winds along the banks of the beautiful Hudson river. From one point on that road the ruins of an old stone mansion are visible. It stands on the top of a hill at a considerable distance from the road to the right. I had often wished to go nearer to its moss-grown walls, but had always been deterred by some member of the family being with me, or else the sign marked "Dangerous," which was nailed to a tree in front of it. But this day I was alone and determined. Ernest drove, and notwithstanding his entreaty, I sprang out of the carriage and was soon peering into the great entrance of the old ruin. Arming myself with a stick I pushed aside the vines and creepers that overhung the open door, and stood within the great hallway, which was filled with poisonous undergrowth. The Interior presented such a wild and gloomy aspect that I was almost upon the point of running away. Had I done so, ictoria Morosini would never have married Ernest Schilling. Being that day imbued with a spirit of adventure, I mounted to the top of a flight of stone steps. There I found a narrow hallway leading into a large room at the back. I started to traverse that hall, but on taking three or four steps forward there was a crash. I felt myself falling-falling and then I became unconscious. When I regained my senses some days later I was lying in a bed at my father's house, surrounded by anxious friends aud relatives, and Ernest (who had rescued me, crushed and bleeding, from beneath the wrecked floor) stood over me with & white face. They were awaiting the doctor's decision as to my chances for lie. I had lingered for days, wasting slowly. "It is a serious wound," said the physician "She has suffered great loss of blood, rind I predict her death within an hour unices one chance alone remains for her; it is blood transfusion." All this I heard him say, without being able to open my eyelids or speak a word. Then there was another pause. Not one of, them moved. Then Ernest Schilling stepped forward, and withomt a momenrs hesitation he bared his strong right arm and said calmly, yet oh, so determinedly: "Take from my veins the Inst drop of blood if it will save her life." The blood was transferred from Ernest's arm to mine. He saved my life and I grew strong almost immediately. Then there arose an intuitive attachment between us. flow could I resist loving the man to whom I owed my life and who pleaded for that leve the being whose life blood courses in my veins, Warming me back to life 7 It was a great debt I owed him and one which 1 have cheerfuHv paid if, indeed, the poor recompense of my willing hand could pay it. He says it has. Our vows at least are indissoluble. It is a bond of love between us that is fixed, unaltered, unalterable. Had 1 a thousand years of life I'd live it all with him. And now you know why Victoria Morosini wedded with Ernest Schilling. The Creole's Skin. Harper's Weekly. TheTe is a curious statement of divers writers to the t fiVct that the tkin of the West Indian Creole feels cooler than that of a European or American from the Northern states. The same is trne of the Louisiana Creole ; the vigorous European or Northerner who touches a Creole hand during the burning hours oi a juiy or am- . ) l. .. w . 4. ln Qiirnrinen At Its gusi uaj Jiaa w . . , - - - coolness such a coolness as tropical Irnits retain even under the perpendicular fire of an equatorial sun. Quite recently a hvdrated calcium sulphate in a state of fine powder has been offered to millers in Europe for mixing with flour in the proportions of 1 to 1.6 per cent., and there is reason to believe that not a few unprincipled persons have actually placed ou the market flour adulterated with calcium sulphate. Balland says if the weight of the ash of a flour is more than 0.6 per cent, the analyst should determine lime and sulphuric acid. Genuine flour has very little lime and a mere trace of sulphuric acid. The Death of Albert Sidney Johusten. - From the illustrated paper by Colonel William Preston Johnston on his father and the Shiloh campaign, in February Century, we quote the following: "General Johnston was with Stratham's brigade, confronting Hnrlbut's left, which was behind the crest of a hill, with a depression filled with chaparral in its front. The Confederates held the parallel ridge in easy musket-range ; and, 'as heavy Bre as I ever saw during the war.' say Governor Harris, was kept up on both sides for an hour or more. It was necessary to cross the valley raked by this dvarily ambuscade and assail the opposite r'dge in order to drive the enemy from his stronghold. When General Johnston came up and saw the situation, hn said to his staff: 'They are offering stubborn resistance here. I shall have to put the bayonet t them.' It was the crieb; of the conflict. The Federal key wax in the front. If his assault were successful, their left would be completely turned, and the victory won. He determined to charge. He sent Governor Harris, of his staff, to ' lead a Tennessee regiment; and, after a brief conference with Breckenridge, whom he loved and admired, that officer, followed by his stall, appealed to the soldiers. As he encouraged them with his fine voice and manly bearing. General Johnston rode ot in front and slowly down the line. His hat was off. His sword rested in its scabbard. In his right hand he held a little tin cup, the memorial of . an accident that had occurred earlier in . the day. Passing through a captured camp, he had taken this toy, saying, 'Let this oe my share of the spoils today.' It ' was this plaything which, holding it between two fingers, he employed more effectively in his natural and simple gesti- illation than most men could have ust-d a ' sword. His presence was fall of initpira-tion. He sat his thorough-bred bay, 'Fire-eater,' with command. His voice was persuasive, encouraging, and corn- ' polling. His words were few; he aaid: 'Men! they are stubborn; we must use the bayonet.' When he reached the center of the line, he turned. 'I will lead you 1' he cried, and moved toward the enemy. The line was already thrilling and trembling with that irresistible ardor which in battle decides the day. With a nrghty shout the line moved forward at a charge. A sheet of flame and mighty roar ' burst from the Federal stronghold. The Confederate line withered ; but there was not an instant's pause. The crest was gained. The enemy were in flight "General Johnston had passed through the ordeal seemingly unhurt. His horse was shot in four places ; bis clothes were pierced by missiles ; his boot-sole was cut and torn by a minie; but if he himself had received any severe wound, he did not know it. At this moment Governor Harris rode up from the right. After a few words. General Johnntnn sent him with an order to Colonel Stratham, which having delivered, he speedily returned. In the meantime, knots and groups of Federal soldiers kept up a desultory fire as they retreated upon their supports, aud " their last line, now yielding, delivered volley after volley as they sullenly retired. ' By the chance of war, a Uiinie-ball fiom one of these did its fatal work. As be tat there, alter his wound, Captain Wickham says that Colonel O'Hara, of his staff, rode up, and General Johnston caid to him, We must go to the left, where the firing is heaviest,' and then gave him an order, which O'Hara rode off to obey. Governor Harris returned, and, finding him very pale, asked him, 'General, are you wounded?' He answered, in a very deliberate and emphatic tone: 'Yes. and I fear seriously.' These were' his lasU words. Harris and Wick ham led his horse back under cover of the hill, and lifted him from it. They searched at random for the wound, which had cut an artery in kis leg, the blood flowing into his boot. When his brother-in-law, Preston, lifted his head, and addressed him with passionate grief , he smiled faintly, bnt uttered no word. ' His life rapidly ebbed away, and in a few moments he was dead. "His wound was not necessarily fatal. General Johnston's own knowledge- of military surgery was adequate for its ran. trol by an extemporized tourniquet, had he been aware or regardful of its nature. Dr. D. W. Yandell, Ins surgeon, had attended his person during most of ihe morning; but finding a large number of wounded men, including many Frderals, at one point. General Jojinston ordered Yandell to stop there, establish a hospital, and give them his services. He said to Yandell : 'These men were our enemies a moment ago; they are prisoners now.-Take care of them. Yandell remonstrated against leaving him, but he was peremptory. Had Yandell remained with him, he would have had little difficulty with the wound." The Lumber Industry. In 18S0 there were 25,780 lumbering establishments in this country, employing $181,000,000 capital and 140,000 hands, distributing 531,000,000 a year in wages, using $140,000,000 worth of material and turning out an annual product of $233,-000,000. Of the whole product, Mich'gao produces 23 per cent., Pennsylvania 10 per cent, and New York and Indiana about C per cent. each. Few of the Southern states reached a product of over $4,000,000. Tho whole South is a forest region, and its great pine, cedar, poplar, cypress and and oak districts are still almost untouched, aud must ultimately become the centers of this industry. Why It Was. Atlan'.s Constitution. "Why 7" asked Fitzgoober, with the air of a man who is about to npring sme grand scientific truth ou Ihe world, "Why is my tailor like a postman with a love letter?" "Because he's just come from a goose," suggested Pulletu "No; all wrong." A short silence fell upon them, broken-by Plnnkett timidly saying: "Why is it then?" "Because he's got a billet dnux." answered Fitzgoober, caHually stepping aside to avoid a rush of bricks that came suddenly into view. One t fleet of Convalescence. NcwYotkSuu. "Why are you so thoughtful ?" asked a wife of her convalescent hunband. He had been very sick, and for several days his lile was despaired of, but he was getting better very rapidly. "I am afraid," he said in response to his wife's question, "that I may havecommit-ted myself rather too strongly with tbs minister." Much Ado About Neat to Nothing. Lancaster Sew Era. When a girl 25 years of age lias siue trouble in making up her mind whether she Will become a sister o! charity, an opera singer or to run away with a coachman, it is hardly worth while to bother much about her. Few persons have an adf quate idea of the number of engines rtquirvd for a railroad. The following figures are tsken from the oflicial marker in the office of, the superintendent of motive power: The Panhandle division, Pittsburg to Columbus, uses 140 locomotives; theLittle-Miami, Coluuibti to Cincinnati. 47; and the Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburg Columbus to Indianapolis and Chicago' 180. Adding to these tho different branches, makes the total number over 600. . Vaseline is said to be a good preservative for egg. The vaseline is melted with 3 per cent, of salicylic acid and rubbed on the eggs after thev arethoroughly washed. The coating to given my be renewed altera while. As the sir is thus thoroughly excluded, the egge, if they are fresh to begin with, ought to keep good for a long time. . ' Coogresloel unmsisrj. Jaki-art it Ornate Hill introduced: Prohibiting, undr h-avy eualths, the men. ufacture and we of ny explosive wtlfln iiVvMed states, for the injur, r de:ruc-tion of public or private property within the Vnitfd States or any foreign countr. iZise -Bill rassed: A6ricnlturl spproprU ation bill.

. - . i -. , ' VOL. XL) VI. NO. 22. COLUMBUS, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1885. ESTABLISHED 1811. OLD ALBION STARTLED. A BLAST HEARD 'BOUND THE WORLD. A Devilish Plot to Blow Up the Bouse of Commons, Westminster and the White Tower All England Paralysed-No Arrests and No Clue. At 2 :09 Saturday afternoon aJierrific explosion occurred in the cryptTof Westminster ball, which forms the vestibule of the House of Parliament, London. A second explosion followed three minutes later in the Hoase of Commons, in the strangers' gallery, and a third shortly afterward at the London tower, at what is known as the White tower. All of them Were caused- by dynamite. Saturday being the usual Visiting day at the houses of Parliament, the buildings Contained a great number of sight-seers at the time of the explosions. Immediately after the first explosion, a lady visitor, who was alone, . and about to enter the buildings, beckoned to a policeman,' 2nd called his attention to a package lying upon the steps outside the crypt. The policeman picked up the package carelessly, not suspecting anything, and went with it into Westminster hall. He no sooner reached the hall than the package exploded. - The great window over Westminster hall was smashed to atoms and all the side windows were blown out. In the interior of the House of Commons, the lobby was wrecked, the gallery torn down, the Speaker's chair destroyed, and the massive stone-work displaced, and the glass roof completely shattered. Glad- - stone's seat was torn to pieces, A large quantity of explosive material had been placed inside the great ornamental gates leading to the crypt under Westminster hall. These gaes were blown clear off their hibges and thrown to the ground. All the windows on the north and south sides of the immense building were blown to atoms. The concussion shook down from the grand oak roof of the ball the accumulated soot of centuries. This in its downward movement made a dense cloud, so that the officers on guard became alarmed and dared not enter the room. In the lobby splinters were for a time thick as flakes in a blinding snowstorm, and were propelled with dangerous force. They cut and ripped the leather from the seats and tore out and scattered the horsehair stuffing all over the House. A man whs happened to be standing on a scaffolding near the crypt when the explosion occurred was knocked forcibly to the ground. ' Immediately after the explosions the whole city of London was in a frenzy of excitement, the entire police force Was on dutv and bedlam reigned everywhere. A cordon of police was placed about the buildings and no one allowed to leave them until they were searched. Fourteen persons were injured, four seriously. The worst injuries were received by Constables Cox and Cole and a civil engineer named Edwin Green, visiting Parliament buildings. Over one hundred visitors were in the House of Commons when the explosion occurred in Westminster hall. Most of them rushed out of the building to ascertain the cause of the report, and thus many lives were saved. The third explosion occurred at the White tower. The famous old building was crowded with visitors at the time. The report was tremendous and was heard for miles up and down the Thames. The scenes in and about the tower were indescribable. Several children were among the injured. - Their pale laces, 'bloody heads and broken limbs raised . the great crowd congregated in the vicinity to a fury, and yells were heard on every side to "lynch the villains." All visitors were detained in the tower until searched and their antecedents inquired into. An invesigation showed that the explosives were handled by persons who gained access to the tow-eras sight-seers. The explosion occurred on the second floor, and three floors were wrecked. Hundreds of rifles were damaged in the tower, which was ignited, and the fire suppressed with difficulty. The ancient armory was destroyed. The noise of the explosion was preceded by a blinding flash, followed by great clouds of dust. Twenty persons were hurt, six seriously. The favorite theory of the police is that the dynamite used at all three places was carried to each one concealed under the long cloak of a woman. Several suspicious parties were seen before the explosion, but it . was believed that they made their escape in the general rush of the people after the terrific shocks. The ruins at the tower show that the explosives were operated from a point somewhere on the inner bastion, or in the esplanade nearest the Thames tower. - The police were unusually prompt and successful in placing their embargo upon all egress from the tower grounds. The explosive agent was deposited in what is known as the banqueting hall, in the White tower. This hall is now used as an armory, and in it were stored a large number of Martini rifles which were shortly to be issued to volunteers. It was behind a rack of these that the deadly compound was placed. The dynamite p'layed fhe maddest , freaks with the rifles. Many of them were twisted into the most eccentric shapes imaginable, and their distorted forms scattered about the apartment in a marvel of confusion. All glass and other fragile - articles in the hall were smashed out of all semblance to their former selves. A . large hole was crushed through the floor .at the spot where the dynamite was placed. Directly overhead a similar hole was blown through the roof. The woodwork was set on fire by the explosion, but before any serious damage had been done '.. by the flames they were extinguished. Remarkable force was shown by the explosion in Westminster hall in a downward direction. Holes were scooped in : the ground large enough for a man. Into one of the holes bo formed Constable Cox ' was violently thrown, and from it was extricated in a bruised and battered condition. Two other policemen near the scene of the explosion were not so seri-onsly hurt, but they were thoroughly stunned by the concussion. Further inspection of the locality of the explosion in the House of Commons hows the flooring was driven clear through to the basement. The floors through "the building are littered with the debris of broken chandeliers, glass and other objects of a fragile nature. The gas fixtures were wrecked, and it was impossible for Colonel Majendie, chief of the department of explosives, to continue his investigations for lack of proper illumination. The damage-, however, will not delay the assembling of Parliament, as everything can be easily repaired before tne day lor meeting arrives. . All persona arrested during the afternoon on suspicion of being implicated in the outrages were released, there being no evidence upon which they could be held. The police were completely nonplused. They were incapable of even forming a theory, and appeared to be dazed at their own inefficiency to prevent such outrages, or discover their perpetrators when they had been committed. Popular indignation ran so high, and the clamor of the crowd for some one on whom to wreak vengeance for the awful crimes of the afternoon was so insatiate, that the persons arrested on suspicion narrowly escaped lynchiDg when setat liberty. Wherever men congregated at clubs, coffee-houses, hotels, on the street, at home, everywhere the one topic of conversation throughout London, throughout the united kingdom, Saturday evening was this last instance of the dynamiters' devilish activity. Passengers on all steamers which left Dover for France that after- noon and evening were searched, in the hope of finding some of the perpetrators, but the search proved fruitless. In all-the principal cities of Europe and in this country the explosions created the greatest excitement. In Paris it was be- ' Tieved that the Fenians of that city had nothing to do with it. At Washington members of Congress were greatly exercised, and Senator Edmunds at once introduced a bill providing for the punishment of any person or persons manufacturing and selling any deadly explosives for use either in this or any foreign country. Senator Bayard introduced the following resolution : llctolied, That the Senate of the United States has heard with indignation and profound Borrow of the attempt to destroy the houses of Parliamentand other public buildings in London, and hereby expresses its horror and detestation of such monstrous crimes against civilization. Consideration of the resolution was postponed until Monday, to enable the Senate to receive fuller information upon the subject matter. Prominent Irish leaders being interviewed in New York and other cities of this country express the belief that the outrages were not committed by the Irish, or if so, they freely admit that the work was one of "great discredit to those engaged in it. Westminster Palace. The Palace of Westminster or the new houses of Parliament was commenced from the designs of C. Barry, esq., in 1840, and lies on the north bank of the Thames. The river front includes the residence of the Speaker, at the north end, the corresponding terminal toward the south being the residence for the usher of the Black Rod. The House of Peers and House of Commons are situated in the rear of the front building, or that next the Thames, and is enclosed also to the west, so as to be entirely surrounded by parliamentary offices. The plan of this truly national edifice is very simple and beautiful. The central hall, an octagon of 70 feet square, is reached through St. Stephen's hall and porch, communicating by noble flights of steps with Westminster hall, and forming an approach of unequaled magnificence. From the central hall a corridor to the north leads to the commons' lobby and the House of Commons, and a corridor to the south to the- peers' lobby and the House of Peers. The construction throughout is externally of hard magnesian limestone, from North Anstone, in Yorkshire, near Norkross, Nottinghamshire. The interior stone-work is from Caen. The whole building stands on a bed of concrete 12 feet thick, and the structure contains about 900.000 tons of stone, 24,000,000 brick and 5000 tons of iron. The palace to tne eastward presents a frontage of nearly 1000 feet. The building covers an area of about nine staute acres, and the great tower reaches to a height of 346 feet. Fourteen halls', galleries, vestibules. etc, are contained in the great building. It comprises eight official residences, twenty corridors and lobbies are required to serve as the great roadways, and thirty-two apartments are used as committee-rooms. Its cubic contents exceed 15,000,000 feet, being one-half greater than St. Paul's, and it contains not less than between 500 and 600 distinct apartments. The House of Commons is situated on the north of the central hall, and is approached through Westminster hall by a spacious flight of stairs leading to St. Stephen's porch. It is 83 feet in length from wall to wall, 45 in width and the same in height. . The White Tower Is the- most ancient of all the existing buildings, and generally supposed to have been erected by the Conqueror in 1078. It is also on the right bank of the Thames, and above the London bridge.. It is a quadrangular and nearly square edifice, 116 on its north and south sides, and 96 on the east and west, 190 feet high, exclusive of the turrets at the four angles. After being repaired in 1552, it was put in good condition during the reign of George II. The Norman Chapel of St. John is in the upper part of the White tower, and was originally used by the English mon-archs as a place of worship.-Sunday's Developments. Loxdon, Jan. 25. The west end of Westminster hall is full of wreckage caused by yesterday's explosion. The destruction of the magnificent stained window at the end of the hall, is greatly lamented. It is believed one of the conspirators entered the crypt, passing a policeman at the entrance, and deposited the infernal machine at the bottom of the steps. A policeman removed the parcel, which exploded, makingahole in the floor 3 feet in diameter, twisting Jhe iron railings and smashing the iron and lead work of all the windows in the hall. The policeman's hair was singed and his face burned ; his clothing was torn from his body by the force of the explosion. He is still alive but no hope is entertained of his recovery. The man and woman who drove from the Parliament buildings immediately before the explosion, and who were arrested on suspicion, have been liberated, the evidence being insufficient to hold them. The foundation of the hall is uninjured, but the roof is badly damaged. The bases of the statues Of William IV and George IV, which were overturned, are greatly injured. An inspection of the Parliament buildings today shpwed that, excepting the beautiful window overlooking the staircase at the south end of Westminster hall, scarcely a pane of glass escaped destruction. The foundations of the buildings were badly shaken. The roof of the crypt, in spite of its massive strength,. was greatly damaged, ruts being visible here and there. The floor of the House of Commons presents a strange spectacle, being covered with heaps of massive fragments. The elaborately carved oaken hall behind the seats beneath the gallery was completely torn down. The flooring of the strangers' and Speaker's galleries is so torn up that it is deemed unsafe to venture across. The peers' gallery suffered the most damage. The side galleries and reperters' gallery were not injured. The parcel which caused the first explosion was wrapped in a brown cloth, and was two feet long by one foot wide. A gentleman complains that the shock of the explosion broke one of his bloodvessels.Tne Queen sent a telegram today inquiring as to the condition of the injured policemen, Cox and Cole. A reply was sent stating that they were both progressing favorably. The greatest indignation prevails throughout the provinces. The outrages were referred to and denounced in all the churches today. ' It is learned that the mysterious Irishman, who is described by the police as Cunningham, alias Dalton. alias Gilbert. and who was arrested at the tower yesterday on suspicion of having been concerned in the explosion at that place, has not been released, tie is still detained in the White Chapel police station. The guard in front of the station has been doubled in consequence of the gathering of enormous crowds of excited citizens in Leman district, in the vicinity of the station. Loud curses and ominous threats are continually heard, and there is no doubt a desperate attempt will be made to lynch the prisoner, if it were not for the presence of the police and military. Cun ningham will be arraigned at the police court in White Chapel road tomorrow morning. An American traveler, name not known. was in the train of the Northwestern railway going from London to Liverpool yes terday aiternoon, wnen an excited uis cussion arose over American responsibil ity for the dynamite explosions. The opinion was freely expressed that the Tjnited States ws greatly to blame for harboring such men as O'Donavin Rossa. The American defended his country in vigorous language and was attacked by a crowd of passengers. Tne American drew a revolver and kept his assailants at bay until the train reached (Jhester, wnen he jumped from the carriage and escaped. Bridge-Works Damaged. Chicago, Jan. 25. Lassing Sc Alden's bridge-works, in the suburb of Lake View. was damaged $25,000 by fire this morn ing. The logs is chiefly on stock and patterns. The works were insured for $70,000. Street, Car Stables Burned. Kansas City. Jan. 25. The Journal's Carthage, Mo., special says: The city's street car staoies were Durnea last night. Thirteen mules and four horses psrished. lobs ?iu,uuu, insurance half. CRIME OF THE CENTURY. STATESMEN ON THE DYNAMITE PLOT. Universal Execration of the . Inhuman Method of Sighting the Woes of IrelandSample Opinions Freely Expressed on the Snbjcct. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Washington, Jan. 25. The English ex plosions continue to agitate all classes of people here, and the condemnations poured upon the fiendish perpetrators of the outrage are of the severest character. None are more earnestly sorry that the dynamiters are not all hanged than the friends of Ireland. I talked with an Irish-American member of Congress, O'Neill of Missouri, upon the sub ject today. Eeferring - to the West minster explosions he said: o true friend of Ireland can condone such a crime for a moment. Reckless bloodshed and wholesale murder are the very worst weapons that could be used to secure Ireland's freedom. If there is any one thing that will give our oppressors an excuse for their continued denial to right the wrongs ot Ireland, it is the senseless policy of the dynamite fools." Mr. Deuster of Wisconsin said, referring to the same subject: "It is too terrible to contemplate. The dynamite school of political agitators should be summarily wiped out. No punishment could be too great for such fiendish work. They'have shown their hands in Germany, England and France. Bloodshed of the most diabolical character, the murder of women and children and the wrecking of prop erty witnout reason ot any kind will do more to set back the cause of any reform than anything I know. I shall be happy to cast my vote in favor of the meat stringent law to prevent dynamite plots in this country and to mete out the most rigid penalties to the violators." Mr. Kegiuaid Howard, at one time con nected with her majesty's consular service in this country and an Englishman of Drains, today said : "I have sympathized with the cause of the Irish people in their claims for home rule and no Englishman has taken a more determined stand than I have in behalf of the true Irish cause. I thick therefore that I have the right to speak on the subject of these explosions. In the first place it is natural to assume that they were the work of Irishmen. w bat then will be the result ? Simply to set the Irish cause back farther than it has been for twenty years. Englishmen are reputed to be bull-headed. To the extent that they are difficult to move this is true. JNow all England is stirred up by these outrages and the Irish must sutler in consequence. It would be as much as a man's life is worth to advocate the cause of Ireland in London now. Aothmg that the bitterest foe of the Emerald Isle could have done could have struck such a blow at the cause of Irish freedom as these ill advised and senseless murders. "What reason could the consDirators have had for the destruction of the tower?" "I can not imagine, unless it was be cause the tower is the pride of London. It was erected hundreds of years ago and is the attraction of the east end of the city. It is visited daily by hundreds of women and children. A more brutal or cowardly attempt could not have been made than to attempt to blow up the building, and I am sure that my countrymen will take out their revenge upon the Irish as a class, without reference to the fact that but few were engaged io the dastardly outrage." .. , In Brief. .. Mrs. and Miss Bowman, wife and daughter ot Judge Bowman of Springfield, O., are at present guests of General and Mrs. faul ol this city. Chatles Price has been promoted from a 480 position to one of $600 in the patent office. Henry C. Hunterman has been desig nated to a third assistant examinerahip in the patent office. George vv. Perry has been aoDomted to a first-class clerkship in the Treasury department.William C. McGill, jr., has been appointed to a first-class clerkship in the Treasury department. All of these men are from Ohio. Miss Jessie Dewer of Clyde. O.. is a guest of Miss Gertrude Wilson at 918 Nineteenth street. Western Associated Press Dispatches. Susan 11. Anthony Gives Her Opinion at a Clergyman. Washington, Jan. 25. Rev. Dr. Patten, president of Howard university, preached a sermon in the Congregational church of this city today on "Woman and skepticism," in the course of which he spoke of the Woman 'Suffrage convention held here recently and expressed the opinion that when women are given too much liberty they branch off into skepticism and immorality. He said among ether things that the lives of such women as George Eliot, Madame Roland and Harriet Martineau exemplifies the truth of this assertion, and he referred to Victoria Woodhull as a representative of the woman suffrage movement. Among his audience were Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and on the conclusion of the service they walked to the platform and upbraided Dr. Patten for his utterances. Miss Anthony said to him if his mother were living she should take him across her knee and spank him, but Mrs. Stanton interrupting her, said: "On the contrary, let me congratulate Dr. Patten. I have been trying for years to make women understand that the worst enemies they have are in the pulpit, and now he has illustrated it beyond question." Without giving Dr. Patten time to reply, the women hastily left the church. Tonight Eev. Olympia P. Brown replied to Dr. Patten from the pulpit of the Universalist church. Onr Export and Import Trade. Washington, Jan. 25. During December, 1884, the value of merchandise was $91,294,810, or about 53,000,000 a day. This has been exceeded but twice before. viz: daring December, 18S0, and December, 1882. The value of imports of merchandise, December, 1884, is only $42,- j.a,ouy, Deing less than any previous month since July, 1879. Let Us Hope that She is Insane. Cincinnati, Jan. 25. About noon to day a terrible tragedy took place at Newport, Ky. Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow choked her son, 7 years old, to death, beat her ten-year-old daughter so severely with a Dase-Dau club that it is believed her injuries are fatal, and then cut her own throat with a razor, producing speedy death. Mrs. Winslow was 32 years of age. She was living with her brother and his family at the corner of York and Taylor streets, Newport. She and her husband, George ' C. Win-slow, have been separated for several years, he living at present at Lewiston, JN. 1. A tew months ago Mrs. Winslow returned from a sojourn in a sanitarium for treatment for insanity. Today the family left her, and her two children with two servants at the house while they went to church. She retired with her children to her room. The servants no. ticed the absence of the children and made a search. They found her room locked and raised the alarm. Mr. Davis, a brother to Mrs. Winslow. broke the door open and found the seene as de scribed. Attacked by Mexicans, Gaxvestojj, Tex., Jan. 25. The News's San Angela special says: Saturday night, on the sheep-ranch of Fitz Karzer. fifteen miles north of here, two Mexicans entered a tent and stabbed and killed Henry Metzger and seriously wounded Elmore Tremble, Fred. Smith and another man. The murderers, named Manuel and Daesis, were employed herding on a neighboring ranch belonging to Jiarger. They entered the tent while the men were sleeping. A posse is pursuing the Mexicans. No cause for the attack is known. The wounded men will die. FOREIGN NEWS. MANITOBA. Winnipeg, Jan. 25. Two young men on Friday last' met two young girls named Mary and Jessie Thomas, the latter only 15. The men took the girls about town during a part of the day and got them in a state of intoxication. They then drove to a hay loft about three miles out of the city. After assaulting them they, abused the unfortunate girls in a most inhuman manner, then threw them out of the loft and left them to their fate. The little girl was thrown into an empty sleigh. Tne night was terribly cold and the girls had very little clothing about their persons. The little girl managed to reach the house of her mother and told the story of ill usage. A party at once started to the scene of the atrocity a mile or so distant, and reached the other girl to find her in a dying condition. Every part of the body was frozen. She was taken to her mother's house and every effort put forth to save her life. She died today. The little girl was enciente and would become a mother in about a month. The police have arrested the guilty parties. ENGLAND. London, Jan. 25. The great anxiety in regard to the safety of General Stewart and his army, from whom no definite news has been received since the ithinst., the day of the battle at Abu-Klea Wells, overshadows even the interest in the explosions. The officials of the war office have been gathered in the office all day awaiting the arrival of dispatches from the Soudan, but none have been received. Plenty of rumors were in circulation, however, to the effect that Stewart's entire force had been killed. Numerous officers of the government and others called at the war office during the day to learn if there was any news. FRANCE. Paris, Jan. 25. Admiral Courbet tele graphs regarding the engagement with the Chinese at Kee Lung: "A detachment of African light infantry imprudently attempted to carry the strong Chinese earthworks south of Kee Lung, and was repulsed. .Nineteen men were killed and twelve seriously and fourteen slightly wounded. Reinforcements nave since arrived and landed at Kee Lung in excel lent health." Ihe Hone ivong dispatch sent yesterday regarding this engagement was exaggerated. BELGIUM. Brussels, Jan. 25. A collision oc curred today between two trains in a suburb of this city. Both were filled with excursionists. Twenty were injured and several of them are now dying. Tommy Jones' Funeral. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Newark, O., Jan. 25. The funeral of Tommy Jones, aged 13 yeais, took place irom the Welsh Congregational church today at 1 p. m., and was the most largely attended of any funeral ever seen in this county. Rev. I. N. Jones preached an impressive discourse. There is no clue as yet to the murderer. Mr. Reese Jones, the uncle, says he does not know of any enemy he has, and if the assassinintend-ed to kill him he can not conceive the cause. Detectives are at work on the case. Tommy was shot last Wednesday night. An Experience They Did Not Fine For. Toledo, Jan. 25. This morning a spe cial train bearing the Union Association of Lumber Dealers, returning from an ex cursion to Muskegon, Mich., was derailed, eight miles north of Allegan, Mich. The two forward coaches were overturned and four of the occupants injured. P. P. Birch, Sidney, O., side injured; -D. C, Fisher, Findlay, O., back severely wrenched; T. F. Bond, Springfield, O., temple badly bruised: J. W. Aiken. Bur- gettstown, Pa., scalp wound. - Greeting the Bell. Nashville, Jan. 25. The train bearing the Liberty bell was delayed, reaching here at 8 : IS this morning. Several hundred people were at the depot, some having been waiting Bince daylight. The train was loudly cheered. Being behind time only a few minutes' stop was made. No time for speeches or ceremonies. Why Not Arrested ? Cincinnati, Jan. 25. The coroner has returned a verdict that the death of William Heffner, an inmate of the Long View Insane asylum, who died from the effects of a bath in scalding water, was due to culpable carelessness of the attendant.-The attendant has been discharged but not arrested. Life in a Large City. Philadelphia, Jan. 25. Stuart Bros., blank-book manufacturers, failed ; liabilities $45,000, assets 20,000. The jewelry firm of Simon & Wolf yesterday confessed judgment for 522,630 in favor of H. G. Mackinney, as trustee for creditors holding claims for that amount. A Farmer Hurt. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Springfield, Jan. 25. Charles Friels, a prominent farmer of North Hampton, fell on the ice in front of Myers's livery stable this afternoon and cracked his skull. He was taken to the St. James hotel. He is in a precarious condition. Fighting for Bis Body. New York, Jan. 24. The remains of Owney Geoghegan, ex-pugilist, arrived here today. The reputed wife of Geoghegan was not permitted to see the body. She says she will make a fight in the courts to obtain possession of it. IsDiCATioss--Jbr Teniiesiee and ihe Ohio valley, fair iceather, wanner in the western portion, falling followed by rising temperature in the eastern portion and wetterrly winds. "Shall We Meet Again?" The following from the pen of the lamented George D. Prentice is well worth reproduction. It was regarded as merit orious when it first appeared, and age seems to have but added to its beauty: "The fiat of death is inexorable. No appeal for relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom, wither, and fade in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot-steps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the grass, and the multitude that throng the world today will disappear as foot-steps on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadows fall across their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose living smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonist of life, and the thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise ; we do not want to go down into damp graves, even with princes for bedfellows. In the beautiful drama of Ion, the hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek, finds deep response, in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his life a sacrifice to fate, his Clemanthe asks if they should meet again; to which he responds: I have asked thnt dreadful question of the hills that look eternal of the clear streams that flow forever of stars among those fields of azure my raised spirits have walked in glory. All are dumb. But as I gaze upon thy living face, I feel that there is something in love that mantles through its beauty that can not wholly perish. We shall meet again, Ulemanthe. Ornaments and statues cast from refined zinc are given a sparkling appearance by directing a saud-blaftt under steam pressure upon them bo that the sand cuts the surlace but does not adhere to it. A thin film of oxide is thus formed, which stands atmospheric exposure admirably, yet the him is so thin that it scarcely admits ot ordinary measurement. AS WITH A WALL OF FIRE THE HOCKING VALLEY IS DEFENDED. The Fortifications at Sand Ran, Locgstreth and Bochtel Utter Futility of a Sue ; - cessful Attack Upon Them , The Trne Sitnatlon. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Buchtel, O., Jan. 24. There is a difference of opinion among men as- to the probability of armed mobs ever devastating the Hocking valley. In the first place the different works are fortified in such a manner as to be practically im pregnable to the enginery of war now in the valley. The forts are absolutely shot proof, and are so solid in their construction that dynamite would have to be well placed under them to effect serious damage. They serve as the quarters for guards, and have loop holes opening up from every side. They are situated in commanding positions, and not a foot of ground approaching the hoppers and mines but what is exposed to a - scathing fire from the fortification. Take for instance the line of defense at Sand Run, Longstreth's, fortified, and the combined forces of the valley could hardly carry one of these places, it is true a siege might reduce them, but it is not a possibility. i Twenty or thirty men placed in one of these forts armed with Winchester re peating rifles, would be a terrible circum stance to run against, and it is easy to imagine what havoc could be worked before any force charging across open ground -could dislodge them. The men in charge ol these places , nave had experience M guards in many of the great strikes in tne country, and they know what a war with a mob means, and are not likely to become demoralized under the most trying circumstances. . There is another thing that should not be forgotten in considering this matter, and that is the fact that a large percentage of the new men, or'blacklegs," as they are called, now at work, are natives of the valley, have been raised among the vicissitudes of the region, and are as free to take part in rough and tumble set-tos as their fellows standing out. They know the country as well as any one in it ; they know the characters of the strikers better than any one can tell them, and being right on their native heath, there is the best of reason for believing that they would be valuable auxiliaries in case of an attack. It is true that many of the imported men have left the valley, but their places are being rapidly filled by men who are residents here, -bvery day the offices of the coal companies are receiving applications for labor. It is true the mines are not all running to the full capacity, and it may be true that the work is done in a slovenly manner in some cases, but it is also indisputable that hundreds of sturdy furnace men have put their shoulder to the wheel and will make number one miners. It should be remembered then, that ia speaking of the men at work, that a big part ot them are children ot men identified with the first industries in the valley : they are men that have helped to dot the hills with churches and school-houses, and no less men of warm hearts and generous impulses, because they have disagreed with the Miners' union. This class of men feel that they are nut only sustained by the law in the course they have - pursued, but have asserted their manhood by mining by the sweat of their brows what might have been theirs through the charity of others. Arms in the hands of men who prefer labor to charitv are likelv to be effective.- . , . . '? The defense of the bridges "along the railroad is equally good. Besides the heavily armed guards at them, the patrol trains are constantly moving from one point to another and could in a few min utes remtorce any place threatened. The men employed in this work are among the most trusted in the employ of the company, and while they are not imbued with bitterness toward the strikers, are still intent on. the preservation of railroad property. From a war standpoint the plan of defense in the valley is excellent. Before there is a massing of forces to annihilate this district it should be considered, first, that many of the old men have left the valley, many of them have gone to work, and many others who are opposed to the syndicate have held aloof from all demonstrations. The knowl edge that the state troops would be down on the first battle line drawn up would deter many others. Then again you will find many households divided. One brother is a striker and "another a "blackleg." You can find fathers that are loyal to the companies, and sons that are the bitterest strikers, and vice-versa. Considering then these phases of the situation, it will be seen the mining element is not a unit on the question of war, and the theory that the miners will combine to ravage the valley does not even seem to have the support of a probability. Thereof course may pe some local agita tions ; there may even be an attack on some point in the valley. The operators have been blamed with distorting facts as to the occurrences here, but a fair and impartial hearing wruld likely destroy the charge. They have certainly had cause to believe every rumor that was started ; they have had some of their most valuable property destroyed; theii works have been repeatedly attacked by armed men ; their lives threatened and their employes intimidated. It must cost considerable to mine coal under the present arrangement because when men first figured on the feasibility of operating these mines, the cost of keeping a standing army was not included in the expense account. But the output of coal is gradually increasing. The mining camps in the valley are quiet and orderly ; the roar of cars on the hoppers, the thunder of coal over the screens, the lpng heavily-ladened trains winding out of the valley are the best evidences that the affairs of the region are gradually ad justing themselves, despite the opposition- ot miners unions and all opposing lorcos. The depredations that have been committed in the valley have been ascribed to the miners, not individually but as a class. It would be very strange that if in all the years the mines have been open in the HockiDg valley that the men have had no cause of complaint, and yet there is nothing" to justily the. bad work done here. The union has never once raised a voice against the lawlessness. If it did not favor, it has not dissented. It has allowed the character of every miner in the region to be blackened, whether guilty or innocent. This thing has driven men from it. They do not want to be made the heroes of every fight the villains of every drama that covers up the labor question. Tuey say that John McBride fits an iron bit in the mouths of charging war horses here and keeps them headed right into the hjjht. Men must not dig coal here in a ten foot vein at 50 cento per ton. Thev can dig for that price in a vein one-half less iu thickness elsewhere, however. Why should the miners of the Hocking valley be under obligation to anyone?' It is a shame that they did not long ago cut loose from all entangling alliances, and it is surprising that in a section where there are so many bright minds they should be willing to submit to dictations so unjust and arbitrary. At the beginning of the present trouble, the condition of the business world could not but impress anyone that 60 cents was a fair compromise. But the mandate went forth from the Mahoning valley that it must be 80 cents if it bankrupt the valley. It has nearly done it. The bank account of peace is overdrawn and the land is rich in misery. Not saying anything against organized labor, let it first be sure that home interests are not leeding loreign vampires and the valley wiil be happy. Until this is done it can not be said that the "scepter has departed from Ejrvpt." A Striker's Wife Attacked. Special to the Ohio State Journal. Carbon Hill, Jan. 25. George Edgell, one of the striking miners, with several more returned to work at Longstreth yesterday, and knowing that he could not live here and work for the syndicate, made preparations to move. He sent two men with teams after his goods, thinking it best not to go himself. While Mrs. Edgell was attempting to assist in the work of putting her furniture in the wagons, she was assaulted by several boys, who tore the furniture from her arms, and scattering it over the ground drove her back into the house. She then went to the syndicate office at Garbon Hill and asked for some guards to help her get her furniture cut of the house. The help was - promptly furnished. Five guards, led by Mrs. Edgell, came back to the house, and finished loading the goods in the wagons, amid the jeers and taunts of the strikers, who, though .they took no part in the assault upon the woman, urged the boys to do so. Our honorable j ustice ordered the guards arrested, but no one seemed to have the courage to attempt it, though to see them drilling here every day we would suppose they were brave enough for anything. Our company here numbers about fifteen, commanded by Captain John L. Stahl. They are armed with repeating rifles and some dark right will make a brave attack upon some lonely dwelling or abandoned hopper. The rations dealt out here yesterday fell short of the usual allowance about one-half. ' "Rough on Beef." Special to the Ohio state Journal. New Straitsville, Jan. 24. Mr. Bra-soon, a resident of this place, andV doing work for the syndicate, being consequently considered a blackleg, bad a cow butchered Thursday night. He found the head and hide in a slaughter-house near by. This place is rough on people of that class. Thomas Price, the owner of two cows, is sick on account of the loss of sleep and exposure in watching his cattle. THE RAILROADS. Two Freight Trains Collide. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 25. At midnight last night a railroad collision took place near Collier's station, on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis railway. The trains were the last section of 40 going east, and the first section of 51 going west, both freights. Ihey were in charge of Engineers John Park and Lowry, end Conductors Roberts and McDevitt. - Bnh en gines are total wrecks. One cab and both tenders were mashed into Kindling-wood, as were nine cars loaded with corn, corn- meal, coke and nails. Ihe trains were delayed six hours. Both engineers escaped by jumping while their trains were going twenty-five miles an hour. Local and General. The Union Pacific owes the government only a trifle less than $103,000 000. Ticket scalpers are prohibited by a city ordinance from working in New Orleans. Notwithstanding this they have become so numerous that the passenger agents have petitioned the mayor to look after them. Railroad Commissioner Innis of Michigan thinks the following improvements are indispensable to a desirable condition of freight train service: 1. A freight car of uniform dimensions and construction on all roads of the country. 2. Automatic couplers. 3. Power brakes for freight cars operated from the locomotive. Columbus merchants will be glad t know that a genera! reduction has been made in west-bound freight rates. The new schedule will go into effect today. The rates to this point will be: First class 40 cents, second class 32 cents, and third class 20 cents. The utter demoralization in emigrant rates caused anxiety lest a similar panic should strike freight rates. The roads decided to. avert any possibility of such a disaster by making a timely reduction. The annorance to general ticket agents of the pass system is much beyond the supposition of one outside the oflices. Colonel Reppert, of the Baltimore aDd Ohio, estimates that fully one-fourth of his time is occupied in issuing passes. Many of these applicants for passes have no legitimate claim to the courtesy, but rely upon their power of harrassing the official until the bit of paper is obtained. J. N. Free, or as he is better known, the "Immortal J. N.," has thirty-four passes over different prominent roads. He could ride from Portland Me., to Deuver, Colo., or down to New Orleans on passes, to no one of which he has any right beyond that of his unlimited cheek. One of his tickets reads "Good until eternity," and another, "If any conductor punches this ticket, the owner is entitled to punch his head." Another class of applicants for privileges are the officers of . projected roads, which exist only on paper. Still another is composed of men who have some gigantic scheme in mineral or timber land, the transportation of whose products will bring a small fortune to the railroad. Swarms of these respectable deadheads ride free, while on many roads the employes who work hard for the material welware of the road, must pay half fare if they wish to make a little visit anywhere. How to Manage a Hasband. New York Star. Supposing .you have a husband whom you wish to twine around your little finger, you must first love him "with all your heart, with all your soul," etc., and the love you feel will make it possible to put with all those little discrepancies which ctop out in man's nature when you come to live with him, for the best Of men become monotonous after awhile. In the first place, should your husband be a man of business, who comes home tired to death, cross and worn out, do not at once entertain him with the troubles you have gone through during the day. I always found it an excellent plan to hide disagreeables entirely from a husband's notice. Oh, how men hate tears; how they detest household details. Of all things, when your hasband comes home, see that his dinner is well cooked. You don't know how a man appreciates a loving welcome and a good dinner after the toil of the day. There are many women who object to being "bossed,"' as they call it. My dear ladies, you can always be boss if you take the trouble. By giving in vou get your way as you never would by fighting for it. Should you wish for anything particularly, don't insist upon it after reiusal. Of course you must have it, but bide your time. Some women are persistent, and ask, "Why may I not? Why won't you do as I ask you?" and irritate the man. Rather bide your time, make an extra good dinner of his favorite dishes, put a bow on of the color he likes, make home and yourself sweeter than ever. You'll get it sure, even if you have to wait. I believe that it is perfectly possible to keep your husband so perpetually in love with you that he rather likes being ruled than not. Never ask for a new dress until after dinner. Trust no woman, but trust your husband until you find him out. . If any youig woman goes for him, take the three-legned stool to her, and make yourself so doubly agreeable to trie man, that he will never dream of looking at another. Ob, what an easy thing it is to manage the man you love and really they all want managing.Mr. E. Richard has discussed in the Journal de Pharmacie et de Chemic the dangers due to an escape of coal gas from the mains through the soil. The poison ous effects of carbon monoxide are vc-ry distinct at U 4 per cent. h.xposure to such a mixture is fatal in from thirty to sixty minutes. As coal gas contains about 10 per cent, of carbon monoxide the presence of such a eas in the proportion of 4 to 0 per cent, will become fatal. When coal gas traverses a layer of soil before entering a house the danger is greatest, since it is then deodorized and its presence may remain undetected. The Buffalo Commercial comes to the rescue of the Niagara falls hackmen, and declares that "unless a visitor is a fool ho can easily bargaLn with a courteous, iotel-ligent driver for ft rido upon the most favorable terms." OH! GIVE US A BRIEF REST MR. CLARKSON NOW HAS THE FLOOR And Tells L's All About the Luscious Legate This ITonld Have Been Good Reading Before the Lata Cyclone A Little Musty Now, However. Deb Moines, Io., Jan. 25. In reply to Legate's statements, sent in these dispatches last night, Mr. J. S. Clarkson says : "This is a contradiction of the two statements that Legate has made to the St. Louis Republican, and is nearer the truth. It denies his own and St. John's statements that they had had so conference on the matter. It confesses virtually the collusion and the amount St. John asked ; it shows St. John was willing to be hired to leave Ohio and hired not to go to New York. Legate never said a word to me about the money being sent to the .Republican committee in Kansas, nor do I believe he did to anyone else, for I have never heard of it nntil now. I do not know who he means by his friend in Ohio, unless it was Senator Plumb, as it was the latter who gave him a letter of introduction to me. It will be seen the letter contradicts Ht. John in nearly every instance, especially in St. John's denials that he had had no conference with Legate ; that he had had no sore throat ; that he did not change any of his appointments in Ohio ; that he never thought of leaving Ohio, or of not going to New - York, and that he never thought of suqh a thing as changing his course to Buit or serve the Republicans. Indeed the letter of Legate is a virtual confession of the truth of the statements I have made, except that he suppresses the facts as to his receiving a letter from St. John, that he read to me and Kerens, and that he seeks to make it appear the money was to go the Kansas Republicans, and that the national committee had sent $25,000 to that certain state, when it had not nearly enough money to use in the doubtful states. It shows Legate was acting in collusion with St. John, that he did get him - out of Ohio, and indeed it proves practically all that has been charged, and that St. John understood it all. The only material difference made by Legate is in his strained and insincere statement that the money was being sought for party benefits in Kansas, instead of St. John's personal benefit. Kansas Republicans would have been the last to ack or accept the money that the national committee needed bo much in doubtful states. In another w-ek I hope and believe Legate will take another long step forward and tell the rest of the facts, and give to the public the letters of St. John to confirm it all. It will be seen that he no longer contends his printed letters are forgeries, but admits them and tries to explain them. The letter he wrote me after returning to Kansas was not marked confidential, as he says, and I did not allow it to be printed until after I was compelled to it by statements that he made in an interview in the St. Louis Republican." HOW HE WON UEK. Victoria Sf o rosin i Explains now Krnest Captured Her Affections. Speclsl to the New York World. Notwithstanding the fact that volumes have been written and published about the famous Morosini elopement case and various explanations made as to how the lady became infatuated with her father's couch man, the real facts were never brought to light until they were obtained by a reporter here from Mrs. Schilling herself. The story is remarkable-one. Mrs. Schilling, in reply to questions on the subject, eaid : . - From childhood up it had been iny pleasure to roam at will through the forest which surrounded my home. Riding, too, was a great enjoyment to me. not because Ernest drove, for then I had no interest in him. One day I went to ride on ths road that winds along the banks of the beautiful Hudson river. From one point on that road the ruins of an old stone mansion are visible. It stands on the top of a hill at a considerable distance from the road to the right. I had often wished to go nearer to its moss-grown walls, but had always been deterred by some member of the family being with me, or else the sign marked "Dangerous," which was nailed to a tree in front of it. But this day I was alone and determined. Ernest drove, and notwithstanding his entreaty, I sprang out of the carriage and was soon peering into the great entrance of the old ruin. Arming myself with a stick I pushed aside the vines and creepers that overhung the open door, and stood within the great hallway, which was filled with poisonous undergrowth. The Interior presented such a wild and gloomy aspect that I was almost upon the point of running away. Had I done so, ictoria Morosini would never have married Ernest Schilling. Being that day imbued with a spirit of adventure, I mounted to the top of a flight of stone steps. There I found a narrow hallway leading into a large room at the back. I started to traverse that hall, but on taking three or four steps forward there was a crash. I felt myself falling-falling and then I became unconscious. When I regained my senses some days later I was lying in a bed at my father's house, surrounded by anxious friends aud relatives, and Ernest (who had rescued me, crushed and bleeding, from beneath the wrecked floor) stood over me with & white face. They were awaiting the doctor's decision as to my chances for lie. I had lingered for days, wasting slowly. "It is a serious wound," said the physician "She has suffered great loss of blood, rind I predict her death within an hour unices one chance alone remains for her; it is blood transfusion." All this I heard him say, without being able to open my eyelids or speak a word. Then there was another pause. Not one of, them moved. Then Ernest Schilling stepped forward, and withomt a momenrs hesitation he bared his strong right arm and said calmly, yet oh, so determinedly: "Take from my veins the Inst drop of blood if it will save her life." The blood was transferred from Ernest's arm to mine. He saved my life and I grew strong almost immediately. Then there arose an intuitive attachment between us. flow could I resist loving the man to whom I owed my life and who pleaded for that leve the being whose life blood courses in my veins, Warming me back to life 7 It was a great debt I owed him and one which 1 have cheerfuHv paid if, indeed, the poor recompense of my willing hand could pay it. He says it has. Our vows at least are indissoluble. It is a bond of love between us that is fixed, unaltered, unalterable. Had 1 a thousand years of life I'd live it all with him. And now you know why Victoria Morosini wedded with Ernest Schilling. The Creole's Skin. Harper's Weekly. TheTe is a curious statement of divers writers to the t fiVct that the tkin of the West Indian Creole feels cooler than that of a European or American from the Northern states. The same is trne of the Louisiana Creole ; the vigorous European or Northerner who touches a Creole hand during the burning hours oi a juiy or am- . ) l. .. w . 4. ln Qiirnrinen At Its gusi uaj Jiaa w . . , - - - coolness such a coolness as tropical Irnits retain even under the perpendicular fire of an equatorial sun. Quite recently a hvdrated calcium sulphate in a state of fine powder has been offered to millers in Europe for mixing with flour in the proportions of 1 to 1.6 per cent., and there is reason to believe that not a few unprincipled persons have actually placed ou the market flour adulterated with calcium sulphate. Balland says if the weight of the ash of a flour is more than 0.6 per cent, the analyst should determine lime and sulphuric acid. Genuine flour has very little lime and a mere trace of sulphuric acid. The Death of Albert Sidney Johusten. - From the illustrated paper by Colonel William Preston Johnston on his father and the Shiloh campaign, in February Century, we quote the following: "General Johnston was with Stratham's brigade, confronting Hnrlbut's left, which was behind the crest of a hill, with a depression filled with chaparral in its front. The Confederates held the parallel ridge in easy musket-range ; and, 'as heavy Bre as I ever saw during the war.' say Governor Harris, was kept up on both sides for an hour or more. It was necessary to cross the valley raked by this dvarily ambuscade and assail the opposite r'dge in order to drive the enemy from his stronghold. When General Johnston came up and saw the situation, hn said to his staff: 'They are offering stubborn resistance here. I shall have to put the bayonet t them.' It was the crieb; of the conflict. The Federal key wax in the front. If his assault were successful, their left would be completely turned, and the victory won. He determined to charge. He sent Governor Harris, of his staff, to ' lead a Tennessee regiment; and, after a brief conference with Breckenridge, whom he loved and admired, that officer, followed by his stall, appealed to the soldiers. As he encouraged them with his fine voice and manly bearing. General Johnston rode ot in front and slowly down the line. His hat was off. His sword rested in its scabbard. In his right hand he held a little tin cup, the memorial of . an accident that had occurred earlier in . the day. Passing through a captured camp, he had taken this toy, saying, 'Let this oe my share of the spoils today.' It ' was this plaything which, holding it between two fingers, he employed more effectively in his natural and simple gesti- illation than most men could have ust-d a ' sword. His presence was fall of initpira-tion. He sat his thorough-bred bay, 'Fire-eater,' with command. His voice was persuasive, encouraging, and corn- ' polling. His words were few; he aaid: 'Men! they are stubborn; we must use the bayonet.' When he reached the center of the line, he turned. 'I will lead you 1' he cried, and moved toward the enemy. The line was already thrilling and trembling with that irresistible ardor which in battle decides the day. With a nrghty shout the line moved forward at a charge. A sheet of flame and mighty roar ' burst from the Federal stronghold. The Confederate line withered ; but there was not an instant's pause. The crest was gained. The enemy were in flight "General Johnston had passed through the ordeal seemingly unhurt. His horse was shot in four places ; bis clothes were pierced by missiles ; his boot-sole was cut and torn by a minie; but if he himself had received any severe wound, he did not know it. At this moment Governor Harris rode up from the right. After a few words. General Johnntnn sent him with an order to Colonel Stratham, which having delivered, he speedily returned. In the meantime, knots and groups of Federal soldiers kept up a desultory fire as they retreated upon their supports, aud " their last line, now yielding, delivered volley after volley as they sullenly retired. ' By the chance of war, a Uiinie-ball fiom one of these did its fatal work. As be tat there, alter his wound, Captain Wickham says that Colonel O'Hara, of his staff, rode up, and General Johnston caid to him, We must go to the left, where the firing is heaviest,' and then gave him an order, which O'Hara rode off to obey. Governor Harris returned, and, finding him very pale, asked him, 'General, are you wounded?' He answered, in a very deliberate and emphatic tone: 'Yes. and I fear seriously.' These were' his lasU words. Harris and Wick ham led his horse back under cover of the hill, and lifted him from it. They searched at random for the wound, which had cut an artery in kis leg, the blood flowing into his boot. When his brother-in-law, Preston, lifted his head, and addressed him with passionate grief , he smiled faintly, bnt uttered no word. ' His life rapidly ebbed away, and in a few moments he was dead. "His wound was not necessarily fatal. General Johnston's own knowledge- of military surgery was adequate for its ran. trol by an extemporized tourniquet, had he been aware or regardful of its nature. Dr. D. W. Yandell, Ins surgeon, had attended his person during most of ihe morning; but finding a large number of wounded men, including many Frderals, at one point. General Jojinston ordered Yandell to stop there, establish a hospital, and give them his services. He said to Yandell : 'These men were our enemies a moment ago; they are prisoners now.-Take care of them. Yandell remonstrated against leaving him, but he was peremptory. Had Yandell remained with him, he would have had little difficulty with the wound." The Lumber Industry. In 18S0 there were 25,780 lumbering establishments in this country, employing $181,000,000 capital and 140,000 hands, distributing 531,000,000 a year in wages, using $140,000,000 worth of material and turning out an annual product of $233,-000,000. Of the whole product, Mich'gao produces 23 per cent., Pennsylvania 10 per cent, and New York and Indiana about C per cent. each. Few of the Southern states reached a product of over $4,000,000. Tho whole South is a forest region, and its great pine, cedar, poplar, cypress and and oak districts are still almost untouched, aud must ultimately become the centers of this industry. Why It Was. Atlan'.s Constitution. "Why 7" asked Fitzgoober, with the air of a man who is about to npring sme grand scientific truth ou Ihe world, "Why is my tailor like a postman with a love letter?" "Because he's just come from a goose," suggested Pulletu "No; all wrong." A short silence fell upon them, broken-by Plnnkett timidly saying: "Why is it then?" "Because he's got a billet dnux." answered Fitzgoober, caHually stepping aside to avoid a rush of bricks that came suddenly into view. One t fleet of Convalescence. NcwYotkSuu. "Why are you so thoughtful ?" asked a wife of her convalescent hunband. He had been very sick, and for several days his lile was despaired of, but he was getting better very rapidly. "I am afraid," he said in response to his wife's question, "that I may havecommit-ted myself rather too strongly with tbs minister." Much Ado About Neat to Nothing. Lancaster Sew Era. When a girl 25 years of age lias siue trouble in making up her mind whether she Will become a sister o! charity, an opera singer or to run away with a coachman, it is hardly worth while to bother much about her. Few persons have an adf quate idea of the number of engines rtquirvd for a railroad. The following figures are tsken from the oflicial marker in the office of, the superintendent of motive power: The Panhandle division, Pittsburg to Columbus, uses 140 locomotives; theLittle-Miami, Coluuibti to Cincinnati. 47; and the Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburg Columbus to Indianapolis and Chicago' 180. Adding to these tho different branches, makes the total number over 600. . Vaseline is said to be a good preservative for egg. The vaseline is melted with 3 per cent, of salicylic acid and rubbed on the eggs after thev arethoroughly washed. The coating to given my be renewed altera while. As the sir is thus thoroughly excluded, the egge, if they are fresh to begin with, ought to keep good for a long time. . ' Coogresloel unmsisrj. Jaki-art it Ornate Hill introduced: Prohibiting, undr h-avy eualths, the men. ufacture and we of ny explosive wtlfln iiVvMed states, for the injur, r de:ruc-tion of public or private property within the Vnitfd States or any foreign countr. iZise -Bill rassed: A6ricnlturl spproprU ation bill.